by AZ World | Aug 25, 2025 | Contributed by Ana Maria Zuñiga
More than 20 years ago, the Chilean Consul General in Vancouver asked me if I could interpret, and organize the interpreting team, for an APEC working group meeting which Chile was hosting that year and which would take place in Vancouver. I had done other conference...
by AZ World | Jul 17, 2025 | Contributed by Ana Maria Zuñiga
When I began working in the mining industry in 1994, on the construction of the Zaldivar mine in Chile, the price of gold was below US$400 per ounce and copper was below $0.90 per pound. Today, gold is over US$3,200 per ounce and copper is over $4.60 per pound. You...
by AZ World | Jul 9, 2025 | Contributed by Ana Maria Zuñiga
Artificial Intelligence Translation (AIT) – the big umbrella Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a field of computer science focused on making computers and machines “smart”— making them capable of learning, reasoning, and solving problems like humans. Artificial...
by AZ World | Jun 23, 2025 | Contributed by Ana Maria Zuñiga
Over 18 years ago, I received a call asking if “I” could translate some mining documents. Happy to get a new client, I said eagerly said “Yes!”, and when I asked how many pages or words the project had, I was told that they did not know, but that some documents were...